Chapter 363: Zhao Jinxiu
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Liuping County is second only to Fucheng in terms of area and prosperity, and there is a world-famous Weijia restaurant, so Qi Mubai did not go to Fucheng but ran to Liuping, and no one felt strange after that, just wondering, is Qi Mubai preparing to open a restaurant, or is he just simply delicious?
Don't say, Zhiruo is really both, in modern times she is a foodie, in order to satisfy her appetite at the expense of her own research, now to the realm of abundant imperial kitchens, she doesn't believe it if she is not greedy.
However, she has not eaten the royal palace banquet, and when her parents were there before, the emperor's gift of dishes on Chinese New Year's Eve every year has always been a share of the Zhenbei General's Mansion. The imperial kitchen has the skills and characteristics of the imperial kitchen, and the recipes in her mind that have benefited from thousands of years of food culture have brought together many eight major cuisines, the essence of Chinese and Western cuisine, and naturally has its own advantages, but it is not a pity to satisfy the appetite of a few people? Therefore, it is imperative for Qi Mubai to open a restaurant.
Therefore, she came over this time, in addition to satisfying her appetite, she also wanted to try her luck and see if she could find that person, Zhao Jinxiu.
Zhao Jinxiu, born as a maid, later redeemed herself and married, married to the Wei family, and only got a daughter more than four years after getting married. Originally, this was nothing, as long as it could be born, it was common for it to bloom first and then bear fruit. Less than a month after the child was born, the child's father fell to his death.
In this world, orphans and widows are already sad, once the in-laws and brothers fight for property, and the mother's family has no help, they are separated from the family, and even find an excuse to expel the family. A better one may be able to take away the woman's dowry, and even the shameless one can even swallow the dowry for various reasons.
Zhao Jinxiu is one of these bitter widows, her daughter was slandered by her grandparents as a broom star who killed her father, and the mother and daughter were thrown out of the house with a letter of resignation and a letter of severance, but fortunately, Zhao Jinxiu could still take away her dowry. Although Zhao Jinxiu was born as a maid, she was deeply favored by her mother and saved a lot of private money. If it weren't for the accident of the main family, Zhao Jinxiu and her husband would not have left the capital and returned to Liuping, and they had been working in the main family's shop since they got married.
It is said that after Zhao Jinxiu left the Wei family, he ran a small restaurant to maintain the life of the mother and daughter, and later recruited a son-in-law for the mother and daughter. No, less than five months after her daughter gave birth to her grandson, her son-in-law died unexpectedly. At this moment, the mother and daughter are both hard-working, and the rumors of Kefu are flying all over the sky, and even the business of the small restaurant has plummeted, and they can only do the business of the poor, such as those coolies on the docks, and the things are so cheap that they can't be cheaper, and the profits are naturally even less. Fortunately, the shop is their own, and the mother and daughter are busy from morning to night with a small baby, saving money and barely getting enough food and clothing.
Maybe God saw that the three generations of grandchildren were too bitter, and when the youngest grandson was two or three years old, the mother and daughter finally met a nobleman. A wealthy businessman surnamed Lin, who had eaten at the Splendid Restaurant, was particularly concerned about the craftsmanship of the Splendid Restaurant, and when he came to Liu Ping again, he deliberately went to the Splendid Restaurant to eat. After knowing the tragic experience of the Jinxiu family, Lin Fushang, who was preparing to enter the catering industry, decided to hire Jinxiu's mother and daughter to run a restaurant for him in Qiongzhou on favorable terms, which was later opened all over Daying.
I know why I know so much, because, when Xiangmanlou was at its most beautiful, the second owner Zhao Jinxiu was killed by the prince on the charge of rebelling against the remnants of the thief, and the big owner of Xiangmanlou also became the princess's maiden Yasukuni Mansion.
At that time, everyone knew that Zhao Jinxiu was the mighty general Zhao Jiangongfu beside the big girl, soon after General Zhao died in battle, Mrs. Zhao somehow disappeared with her posthumous son, some people said that she had a difficult birth and two lives, some people said that the mother and son were killed when they encountered bandits, and some people said that Mrs. Zhao took her children to remarry and live in seclusion in the mountains and forests......
And the reason why Zhao Jinxiu was designated as a rebel remnant is that Mrs. Zhao's sister is the mother of the abolished prince Ouyang Jin, the concubine Li Guifei back then. It is said that Zhao Jinxiu has a treasure map belonging to the royal family, but she refuses to hand it over when she dies.
During that time, Zhao Jinxiu's origin, origin, and experience were passed around in the streets and alleys, and even made up a story by Mr. Storyteller, and Rudong also said it to Zhiruo with great interest after hearing it.
After reopening his eyes in this life, Zhiruo had never thought of Zhao Jinxiu, until that day in Zhaoyun Temple, when he heard someone sigh that Master Zen Xin, that is, the emperor was an infatuated lover.
Emperor Xiantai resolutely became a monk in the prime of life because his most beloved Concubine Rong died early, and Concubine Li was Concubine Rong's maiden niece.
According to the time inference, Zhao Jinxiu's mother and daughter should have started a tight life at this time, because the business of the small restaurant is not good, and there is a little baby, Zhao Jinxiu's grandson is almost more than a year old, right?
There is also a Fujin Inn in Liuping County, and the three of Qi Mubai's master and servant naturally chose the Tianzi number viewing room.
Zhiruo, who was sitting on the viewing platform, looked down at the county streets, houses, and people coming and going within her line of sight, thinking about how many of those rumors in her previous life were true, and how did the wealthy businessman surnamed Lin persuade Zhao Jinxiu's mother and daughter to go south, and did anything happen in the middle? Can Qi Mubai find soldiers and take them away smoothly in this life? The main reason is that she doesn't want to spend too much time in Liuping. It's not easy to get out, she still has a lot of places to go and a lot of things to do.
The reason why she wants to take away Zhao Jinxiu's ancestors and grandchildren is, first, people always sympathize with the weak, according to those rumors, Zhao Jinxiu's mother and daughter are really pitiful; second, if you know that since she is preparing to open a restaurant, her recipe resources are limited, and someone needs to continue to develop new dishes and train chefs on this basis, just like the pastry chef system of dim sum; third, and most importantly, Zhao Jinxiu is not involved with the abolished prince? And her father Yin Zhao's suspicion of rebellion is also related to the prince of Mingguo, that is, the faction of the abolished prince. If you think about it, will there be a little bit of a connection between them, even if it is a clue. Does Zhao Jinxiu have a so-called royal treasure in his hands, or any other secret that the prince wants to get?
As long as Zhao Jinxiu is willing to follow her and believe in her, she will definitely be able to protect their ancestors and grandchildren, and she will definitely be able to slowly find the answers to the above questions.
Fortunately, Xu is Zhao Jinxiu's mother and daughter's Kefu reputation is too loud, and not long after Luoshuang went out, he inquired about the location of Zhao Jinxiu's small restaurant, as well as the situation of their family, which is similar to what Zhiruo heard in his previous life. The reason why Luoshuang went out to inquire in disguise, instead of asking the innkeeper and buddy, knew that if she didn't want to cause too much speculation before she found Zhao Jinxiu, something would have happened that would not have happened.
"I heard that the business of the splendid restaurant was very good before," Luo Shuang looked indignant, "but now everyone says that their mother and daughter are blessed with a hard life, and they are unlucky to get close to them, and some people deliberately guard the door of the restaurant to stop foreign guests who are interested in entering the restaurant, so the business is getting worse and worse, and only those who are poor and only care about cheap and delicious food and don't care about bad luck will take care of it." Ahh By the way, master, how do you know which Zhao Jinxiu is? I haven't heard you mention it before. "Since you want to find someone, why didn't you plan to come to Liuping when you made the route?
Zhiruo said with a smile: "It's the sister of a personal soldier under my father's command, I heard that the fate was quite bumpy, and then she got rid of her slavery and married, and followed her husband back to this Liuping County." I also thought of the Wei family restaurant and suddenly remembered that she was married to the Wei family, so I wanted to ask how she is living now. After all, that pro-soldier was to block the arrow for my father back then, and he only had such a relative, if it weren't for Zhao Jinxiu, who had already married and left the capital, my father and mother would still want to take her into the house to take care of her, and then marry out as a righteous sister. These are all things my mother once told me about my father's handwriting, saying that most of my father's subordinates are very loyal. ”
Luo Ying and Luo Shuang had expressions of "no wonder", but they didn't feel strange at all about Zhiruo's last sentence, looking at how the master treated them, they knew that her parents were definitely no different from the people in the house. And if the master is good, his subordinates are naturally loyal, except for a few people whose character is not good.
When the three of them found the vicinity of the splendid restaurant, it happened that someone was making trouble, and there were many people watching the excitement in front of the shop. The Luoying sisters stood beside Zhiruo on the left and right, quietly and cautiously. Zhiruo shook a folding fan in a chic manner, listening to the onlookers babbling and expressing their opinions. What makes her proud is that people who practice martial arts always have better hearing than ordinary people, even if some people are afraid of things and lower their voices, she can hear clearly without leaning forward.
"This Zhao lady is really hard-tempered, the business of such a good location store is so poor, and she would rather hold on than sell it to the Wei family. How can it be said that it is also the former husband's family, Zhao Xiaoniang's uncle is not, can he still treat them badly?"
"That is, the Wei family is not only willing to buy this shop alone and leave the small courtyard behind them, but also willing to hire Zhao Niangzi to take charge of the high salary, what else is she not satisfied with, I heard that her cooking skills were also learned by the Wei family. ”
Who doesn't know that the Wei family's cooking skills are the worst, and when Zhao Niangzi's father-in-law was alive, he was also helping people to be the shopkeeper of the grocery store, where did she go to steal learning? Besides, the family can't learn well and is eliminated by the main branch of the family, but this stealing can learn good skills, who believes?"
"But isn't it? I said, why do they go around saying that Zhao Niangzi's mother and daughter are unlucky? It turns out that they want to occupy people's shops and let people make money for them. Since it is unlucky, the store is transferred to the Wei family, and the chef is still Zhao Niangzi, so it won't be bad luck to go in and eat?"
"What's the solution? They stand in front of the shop and talk about it, and if they don't have bad luck, they don't want to go in. Only those coolies on the dock are big and hard-fisted, and they think other shops are expensive, so they ignore them and make trouble. Now the things sold in the shop are getting more and more inferior, and the people who come in and out are coolies, and the other customers are even more reluctant to go inside. ”
"Hey, it's just that the orphans and widows have no one to support them, the county magistrate had a close relationship with Zhao Niangzi before, and the little master of the county magistrate loved to come to the Zhao family's small restaurant to eat, where did the Wei family dare to make trouble for so many years?
"Tsk, although some people were taboo before, the business was not as good as before, but it was not bad, but it was not bad, and in the past two or three months, I was disrupted by the Wei family, and I think I can't make ends meet. ”
"Poor, there's a little baby over a year old to raise. ”
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After standing for less than a quarter of an hour, there was still a commotion in the store, and Zhiruo already knew the situation and ins and outs of Zhao Jinxiu. Luo Ying and Luo Shuang were so angry that they gritted their teeth, and they couldn't wait to rush forward to repair those Wei family members, it was too bullying, right?
Zhiruo raised his chin to the two, the three masters and servants walked towards the shop, and Luoshuang muttered at the door of the store: "Get out of the way, our son-in-law wants to eat, and the shopkeeper hurry up and order." ”
The onlookers and the three men of the Wei family, who were arguing endlessly in the shop, were stunned, if it weren't for the momentum and outfit of the three of them, it would be extraordinary, and the old man of the Wei family with an impatient face almost opened his mouth to scold.
"Coming, coming" A thirty-five or sixteen-year-old woman hurriedly broke through the obstacle and came forward to greet the three of them when they turned around to watch and a gap was created in the original "encirclement": "Guest, please take a seat, guest...... What do the officials want to eat? The small shop now has limited ingredients, so it can only make some very ...... Cheap side dishes, do you want to go to other ......" The three people in front of them looked like the sons and maids of the rich and noble families, and I am afraid that they have an extraordinary background, and the golden mask on their faces makes people's eyes shine. Now, how could such a person come into her shop?
"No, it's your family," Luo Yingli replied, "Our son-in-law listened to a friend's recommendation, and as soon as he arrived in Liuping, he came directly, and he did whatever the ingredients were, but it really doesn't work, this is ten taels of silver, go buy some simple ingredients first, if it's not enough, you tell me." ”
After Luo Ying finished speaking, he handed a silver ingot to Zhao Jinxiu's hand, and then glanced at the three men: "If it's not a guy in the store, and it's not a guest for dinner, please get out of the way, don't affect our son's appetite." As he spoke, he took out two chopsticks from the chopsticks on the table and shook them casually, everyone turned their heads and looked at them, and they were stunned.
The faces of the three big men of the Wei family turned white, and their voices trembled: "Don't dare, don't dare, son, use it slowly...... Slow ......"
Rushuang smiled and pulled her fingers, and easily took out the chopsticks: "Sister, you are really, look at other people unpleasantly, don't be angry with the shopkeeper, frighten the shopkeeper, what if the dishes are not as delicious as Mr. Zhang said? Don't be nervous, this damages the wall, we will leave two taels of silver for you to find someone to repair later." (To be continued.) )